The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Announces 2023 Residents and Opens Call for 2024 Applicants

New cohort of Bellagio Center residents join ranks of more than 5,000 global changemakers spanning over six decades and 130 countries

NEW YORK | March 22, 2023 ― The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center announced the first cohort of 2023 residents selected for a month-long residency program in Bellagio, Italy, and officially opened a call for 2024 applicants with a registration period until April 26, 2023. Since launching in 1959, the Bellagio residency program has welcomed more than 5,000 artists, policymakers, scholars, authors, practitioners, and scientists from 130 countries, including 100 recognized as Nobel Laureates. The residency provides leaders with time in a remarkable setting to work, as well as connections to a growing network of past Bellagio Center residents around the world, all of whom have demonstrated a commitment to social impact aligned with the Foundation’s mission.

“We’re thrilled to welcome the first cohort of residents of 2023 to the Bellagio Center,” said Zia Khan, Senior Vice President of Innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation. “For decades, Bellagio has supported breakthrough ideas, innovations, and coalitions that address our biggest challenges. Like the residents before them, our amazing 2023 cohort will use this unique opportunity to think, work, and engage with each other in a very special setting. We’re excited for the big accomplishments and new friendships that will soon emerge. Our broader Bellagio community welcomes them.” ​​

For over 60 years, the Bellagio Center has supported many meaningful advances through its residency and conference programs and is globally renowned for fostering cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchange. Each year, the Bellagio Center residency program offers approximately 100 best-in-class thinkers and doers the chance to develop the ideas, art, policies, and breakthroughs that will help to promote the wellbeing of humanity by making opportunity universal and sustainable.

First Group of 2023 Bellagio Center Residents

Bellagio Center residents develop a wide array of solutions to pressing global challenges. The 2023 cohort includes an intentional focus on climate & green economies and gender equality, which reflects The Rockefeller Foundation’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis, and empowering women leaders. The residency cohort is diverse, being majority female with nearly half of residents coming from the Global South.